From: utzoo!decvax!decwrl!sun!altos86!andy
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Title: Re: Sexism and our poor English
Article-I.D.: altos86.220
Posted: Mon May  2 10:51:56 1983
Received: Tue May  3 03:02:38 1983
References: sask.236

	Here, here.
	
<Begin sarcasm>
I've always felt that changing all men to person is not strong
enough, after all son is a MALE child.  All 'men' suffixes ought
to be changed to 'perchild'.

	perchild
	chairperchild
	ombudsperchild
	...
<end sarcasm>

	I try to refrain from being overly sexist, but some people
just go to far.  Fanatacism one way is just as bad as fanaticism the
other.
			Andy Hatcher
			(decwrl!sun!altos86!andy)